December 26, 2012

Why do Catholics worship on Sunday instead of Saturday?

Groups like the Seventh Day Adventists object to
Sunday worship as being a violation of God's commands.
They criticize the Catholic Church for "changing" one
of God's eternal decrees. But let's examine the
Scriptural evidence to see what conclusions we should
draw...

4 comments:

I wonder if using Matt.18:18 to defend any adjustment of Biblical teachings by the Church isn't a bit dangerous? For example, the Church states re the ordination of women that it has no authority to change Jesus' praxis but the quote from Matthew seems to undermine this argument... (By the way, I am NOT in favor of the ordination of women).

Mariusz, I do not think the two issues are the same. As Patrick said, the adjustment to Sunday merely "observed the commandment in new and perfected form" - different from the way it was observed under the Old Covenant. The change was a *fulfillment* of the Old Law.

This is a far cry from actually changing one of the *sacraments*, which were not instituted by the Church, but were instituted by Jesus himself. The Church has no authority to do change those.